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dizzie56 -> Wheelie help (6/12/2006 3:16:17 PM)

I just got the 1krr bout a month ago now for my first bike and feel comfortable as hell on it. Alot more than i did on the R6 i learned to ride on. The thing is i wanna learn to do a wheelie without wreckin my bike. I can feel the front wheel wantin to come up all the time just dont know how to. Only had it up about a foot or so then it sits back down. Any suggestions on how i can get it higher?

  
gixxereater -> RE: Wheelie help (6/15/2006 9:21:18 PM)

You're shitting me right? Your "first bike" a 1000RR for one thing and now you wanna do wheelies already? Simple, pin the throttle open in 1st gear and you'll do a wheelie. Is it really worth wrecking your nice new bike to do a wheelie? They take alot of practice to do right, my suggestion would be to use or borrow a dirt bike and learn that way. Wheelies are hard on any bike, but yeah, they're fun. Like i said, pin it open in 1st gear and she'll climb like a bitch. Just be careful.

wheelieit -> RE: Wheelie help (6/16/2006 12:52:47 PM)

Hey dizzie, g-eater is right. You need to practice on a dirt bike just so you can see what it will feel like when the front tire is in the air. Your street bike will still pull it up very easy and probably much different than any dirt bike that you would find to practice on, unless you can find a CR 500 that somebody will let you toy with (not gonna happen).

You must be full of all kinds of crazy! You must not be really wrenching that throttle cause if your were it would come up faster than you would like it to. Get going to about 5000-6000 rpm and hit the throttle real fast (not full, almost, play around with this) and hold on cause here it comes. Make sure you are ready to tap the rear brake, but only if you are about to loop. If it is too high for your comfort ease off the gas. Just remember that you can damage the front suspension if it comes down repeatedly too hard or even one good blow could do it. Take it easy, and remember that these are big bikes and by the time the wheel is off the ground you will probably be doing 50-60 mph.

Oh yeah, you are the one that is choosing to do it, be carefull and accept full responsibility.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/17/2006 9:16:57 AM)

thanks guys. im not that crazy just feel comfortable as hell on the bike and wanna do something else now besides go like a bat out of hell. ive tried gunnin the throttle like u said but still havin a lil trouble getting it higher. do i have to sit farther back in the seat or somethin?

gixxereater -> RE: Wheelie help (6/17/2006 1:25:42 PM)

LOL. Seriously, get rolling in 1st gear. Excellerate briskly, at maybe 5 grand, go WIDE OPEN and hang on. I would guess you are letting off the gas and dont even know it when it starts to come up. You will crash your bike, there is no doubt in my mind. If you do enough of them, it's gonna happen. That bike makes more than enough power to climb in 1st gear no matter how you sit on the bike. I can lean forward all the way tucked in, and mine climbs like hell and all I have is a measly 900RR. You are letting off or not getting wide open to begin with. If you still cant get it, roll at about 6500 rpm in FIRST gear, close the throttle and snap it all the way open. This must be done quickly to work, and it'll come up WAY faster than you expect. But it will come up if that's what you really want. Again, proceede at your own risk, but that'll do it. Be ready to shit yourself and let off.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/17/2006 1:32:17 PM)

ok. now whats an easy way of lettin it down without slappin the tank wit my chest. i did that the other day after i went over a lil bridge and gunned it on the way down. front wheel definetaly got some good air but had to let go of the throttle because a sharp turn was comin up. comin down i smacked the hell outa the tank. do i just have to brace myself better?

gixxereater -> RE: Wheelie help (6/17/2006 6:18:24 PM)

Well, that's one way of doing it. Here, watch this and do what he says. It ends abrubtly but informative. Watch and learn.
He knows what he's doing.

Enjoy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6656191590638402466&q=motorcycle

Remember, he's on a 636 so surely you can do this.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/19/2006 12:10:05 PM)

well i think i finally got it down. i did went to 6k in first and then gunned it and it finally came up. cant wait to get her up tonight on some straighter roads so i can hold it more. hopefully it wont be so damn windy. thanks

Black -> RE: Wheelie help (6/26/2006 3:37:26 AM)

GOD.


You were practicing your first wheelies....in the wind...on your new 1rr...[:@]

well it was nice knowin you.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/26/2006 4:10:52 PM)

I can finally get it up for a lil bit (that sounded wierd). Now how do i ride the wheelie. Ive seen people standin up with it and sittin down. My questions is if they are sittin down how are they not flippin backwards. Ive only gotten the wheel up to 10 o'clock. Dont really wanna push it till i know how to actually ride it with it up like that.

Black -> RE: Wheelie help (6/26/2006 7:07:11 PM)

You're not ready, but the rear brake is your friend.

Illushun -> RE: Wheelie help (6/26/2006 9:56:34 PM)

Before you go trying stand ups, you have to become more familiar with the control of the bike in a sit down position. This is more important to establish the balance point of your bike and how your right foot's ability to find the brake and slightly apply drag pressure on it. Also, understanding the effects the suspension has on the ability to initiate the wheelie is very important. When the others were discussing the wheeling, they were talking about rollon types of wheelies and how the front suspension should be on its rebound when you crack the throttle. Roll ons, are by far the safest way to figure it out in any gear. Clutching shouldn't be considered unless you are completely confident in the reaction your bike gives you.

I got a buddy who is a major poser and rides a 1krr he can be riding in third gear at about 60 and rollon on right into a sitdown and with very little clutching, into a stand up. Those bikes are wheelie freakin monsters.

As the others have mentioned, crashing your bike is one thing, but skin grafting sucks if you aint got the gear to help when, not if, when you go down.


My rule is feel the fear and do it anyway. woohoo!! have fun.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/27/2006 1:27:31 PM)

I was just wondering what was the easiest way to hold the wheelie up whether it be sitting down or standing up. Ive realized that as soon as i let go of the trottle the front end comes back down pretty fast so how do the stunters do those slow roll wheelies. I wanna be able to pop the front tire up and hold it without havin to continue acceleratin to 100 mph. When i pop it up now im already goin bout 45-60 mph depending on how much room i got. Is there any way that i can keep the wheel up without gunnin the throttle the whole time or am i just suppossed to hold it and just enjoy the ride?

Black -> RE: Wheelie help (6/27/2006 2:31:00 PM)

The hell man? Like I said. The rear brake. Watch any stunt vid. Watch the right foot. It's moving. It's pressing and letting off the brake, in correlation with the throttle, lets you ride a wheelie for miles. That or they have a rear brake lever.

dizzie56 -> RE: Wheelie help (6/27/2006 2:42:25 PM)

Well sorry for askin Mr. Internet chat room tough guy. I dont really spend my time watchin other people do tricks, id rather go out and practice my own. Besides i never really looked at the persons feet or even get a good view of them in any stunter vid. But thanks anyways for the info about the brake. Thought u were just bein sarcastic before.

  

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